Desisting from Crime

Michael E. Ezell and Lawrence E. Cohen

Description

This groundbreaking study examines patterns of offending among persistent juvenile offenders. Employing advanced quantitative techniques to offenders with very high rates of recidivism, Ezell and Cohen demonstrate that many of these apparently hardened criminals will "grow out" of crime by the time they reach their early to mid-20s. This finding has profound implications for penal policies that impose life sentences on multiple offenders.

Desisting from Crime

Michael E. Ezell and Lawrence E. Cohen

Table of Contents

1. Looking Forward2. Crime Over the Life-course: the Empirical Implications of Three Theories3. Empirical Research Review and Hypotheses4. The California Youth Authority5. Data and Methods6. Descriptive Summary of the Data7. Age and Crime among Latent Classes of Serious Chronic Offenders8. The Relationship between Past and Subsequent Criminal Activity9. Looking Backward and ForwardAppendices